What would a successful season be?

The transfer saga has ended and our squad will remain as such (barring injuries) until the end of the year. Given our current squad, our management, the current spirit around the club as well as given our competition at national and European levels, what would success look like at the end of May 2018 for you?

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a successful season would be a mid table finish with perhaps reaching the quarter finals of the cups. we are not equipped to reach the top or even near the top. We need a Saudi Arabian prince to buy the club and invest a couple of billion pounds. Then we would stand a chance. My favourite is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Not only is he rich but he is super intelligent. He would know how to get the media and authorities on our side.

To be fair RC I always set the bar high. I still think that we have an incredibly strong squad and one capable of challenging. As long as no-one plays up and creates disharmony in the squad, and AW gets his team set up and balance right, I don’t feel we have a squad that is less talented or inferior to anyone else.

I would look at the season in 2 halves. The first half till January is to get back to consistent good strong performances and winning games regularly. I would like us to be in the mix come January. If that is the case it sends a positive message to players we want to bring in and has likely quashed the media negativity. The club looks positive again.

At this point I would look to do deals on those with contracts winding down who are looking to leave us. Lemar in and Sanchez out I am fine with. If Ozil hasn’t re-signed then I think I would like to see if either of the Spanish giants would be prepared to do a player +/- cash swap deal on a player we could do with.

Hopefully even with the ins and outs we would still continue well through to the end of the season and my ambition (whether realistic or not) is to be EPL champions.

I note you ask ‘what would be a successful season for Arsenal?, which is more difficult to answer, in some ways than ‘what is your prediction of where we will finish in May 2018?’

The latter is just a guess and you would receive as many predictions as there are personalities – and is pointless.

So you have chosen the best question, but will receive just as many different answers.

I would like Arsenal to win the Premier League – but the likelihood of that is remote.
I would not want Arsenal to be relegated or even to flirt with relegation – and again, the likelihood of that is remote.

So what then would be acceptable? First, that the warring gangs of supporters grow up and realise none of them have a god given right to tell anyone else that they ‘do not know what they are talking about’.

The club need to regroup and explain what the roles of the various managers are, including the coach’s, one Mr Wenger.
That would stop instantly the boring and incredibly stupid guesses and counter-guesses as to who is responsible for what is seen as a supposedly ‘catastrophic’ transfer window.

Whooo – and now to what would be ‘acceptable’ for the team.
Any position in the top 4 would be more than acceptable, although it would be sneered at by those as ‘not good enough’ by those who might not be too wonderful in their own lives. And top 4 is possible – if probably unlikely.

Where then? Anything in the range of 5th to 7th would act as a red line requiring the Arsenal owner and management to stop and look at where they are taking the club — and then act – calmly, decisively and immediately and take the steps necessary to restore this great club to its place competing with the other elite clubs — and that is not an arrogant and puerile demand to win every competition we are eligible for. That never made any sense.

I know this is a simplistic summation of some very difficult issues, even if we get into the top 4, and so the only way to resolve all these issues is to win the premiership — early days, blah, blah — but the alternative is not appealing – especially concerning fan relationships. 😦

Morning all. One thing I don’t want this season is for the Ox to step up and play well. Nothing against the lad but that will just put even more negative focus on Wenger and why he couldn’t get it out of him.

If Jack is fit then I would start to give him games. He still potentially has that inherent rare talent. I actually think the ozil position wouldn’t be a bad idea to try him in. The right side of our 2 number 10’s.

1. Getting back into the Champions League.
2. Signing Lemar in January/next June (Wenger said we would try for him again)
3. Ozil & Sanchez being sold in January ( think we should have sold both in the summer and used the money to bring in new players)
4. The board making it clear they are working with Wenger to bring in a new manager and new structure for the 2018-2019 season.